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ED-Seth: Welcome to our Bar Finder Sticky. The user community has kept this going since 2009 to help MGoBloggers find UM-friendly sites for their suds consumption.

We also got a big boost in curation in 2016 from our sponsors, the...

...since most of these bars are officially alumni bars. To find your club and events happening in your area, visit their website.

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THE ORIGINAL POST:

A couple weeks ago, I put together a google map with all of the Michigan bars I'm aware of (and also everything from the spreadsheet that bouje has been maintaining.) The map is here.

Hopefully this will prevent the "where's the Michigan bar in Pittsburgh/Fresno/Topeka/wherever" threads that pop up every week, but if your favorite gameday hangout isn't on here, put it in the thread and let me know. I'll do my best to keep the map up to date.

4-star OT Trente Jones from Grayson High School has committed to Michigan.

He's currently the 332nd overall prospect in the 247 composite, but that feels low to me. He's an Under Armour All-American game invitee, and plays in a strong division in Georgia. Some think he's better than top 100 teammate OL Wanya Morris. At 6'6 282, he moves well for his size but still has a frame to add good weight. It's a really good pick up at a position of need.

Sorry, but I am the most technilogically challenged millennial and not properly embedding his commitment tweet.

If you can't get excited for the 2018 season, you need to ask yourself why you even follow this team and probably need further medical treatment.

Shea, DPJ, Black, Steubs!!!!, Hudson, Don Mother Fucking Brown, HARBAUGH!!, 9 returning starters to that defense, The non returner is a 5 star beast, um Devin Missile Bush, More Hudson this time maybe a stud OT, Ruiz, Peters, All the TE!!!!!, my bet is on Singleton, everyone has forgot about near 5 star Luigi, Uche and Paye are going to kill a QB on a blitz, ND at night, revenge against PSU, Evans out of the backfield, Higdon thru safeties, Long and Hill and AMBRY on the slot!!!

written by me, Henri the Otter of Ennui. I have taken over Brian Cook's soul, and I find it to be a cold place where nothing grows, where my spirit lays on the couch all day in sweats, occasionally muttering: "2016, that was the year I had hope."

I heard about this thing called "recency bias," which science tells us means that a bad thing that happend most recently is literally doomed to continue happening to us over and over again. In other words, science says we are fucked.

The all yellow uniforms worn against UF had many here skeptical for good reason; we wolloped Florida so bad that their head coach is now our wide receivers coach. Given that we play at ND to start the season, would you prefer we wear away uniforms or alternate uniforms for the game?

This may or may not tangentially impact the NCAA's decision to grant eligibility to players including Shea Patterson, but I thought I'd share for those interested.

In case there was any uncertainty, Ole Miss appealed the NCAA's infractions report stemming from the January 22, 2016 notice of allegations on a number of fronts on February 14 of this year. There is no mention of the transfers, which is not surprising, however one thing of note is that Ole Miss is arguing heavily against the ordered dissasociation between the university and Rebal Rags, essentially a quasi "M Den" type of store. It's argument directly lines up with Rebal Rags argument. That case is currently pending at the Mississippi supreme court.

Rebal Rags original suit centered on defamation, civil conspiracy, and commercial disparagement against two former recruits at the time and a parent (Leo Lewis, Kobe Jones, and Lindsey Miller), who informed the NCAA that they had received hundreds of dollars in free merchandise from Rebal Rags in an effort to secure their committments.

The business's main argument is that the three witnesses interviewed by the NCAA and who's testimony they relied on is not credible because Rebal Rags has no documentation of the (illegal) sale or gift of merchandise it gave to the recruits, and because no other recruits admitted they had illegally accepted merchandise. What might be interesting is that Rebal Rags just modified its suit to also file against the NCAA and the NCAA investigator, Mike Sheridan. Just to be clear in case anyone is skimming, the business, not the university, filed against the NCAA and the NCAA's investigator.

While witnesses are usually seen as fairly credible when they volunteer evidence that partially implicates themselves, this is the state of Mississippi involving an out of state institution attempting to prevent a business association between two well respected Mississippi institutions. The last thing the NCAA wants to do is appear to have overreached if things might not go their way, so they might end up giving on this point in removing the dissasociation, which could more than likely be wrapped up with Rebal Rags agreeing to drop the suit against the witnesses. The NCAA should have a secondary reason to want to have the defamation/disparagement suit dropped against the three individuals, as it cannot readily conduct interviews with witnesses if those witnesses believe they will be targeted as a result of their whistle-blowing.

Cliffnotes version as requested:

It is possible that the NCAA settles one penalty against Ole Miss and its business partner for the above reasons, but isn't happy with the business partner's tactics or the university's participation in them. I don't know if that makes the NCAA more likely to give and take with granting immediate eligibility for the transfers even if Ole Miss objects, but I thought I'd share. (Ole Miss hasn't yet submitted their response to the request for eligibility waiver).